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1933 Vanessa A Novel
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Description
Early Edition, Folding Maps, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, Signed
An early limited edition of the work.
Scarce.
One of 315 large paper copies printed in September 1933.
With author's signature to the limitation page.
Includes a fold out colour map of Borrowdale, Lake District, in addition to a fold out Herries Family Tree diagram, before the rear end papers.
This novel forms the final part of a family saga by Hugh Walpole titled The Herries Chronicles which follows an English family's changes in fortune over two centuries. The conclusion to an epic of historical fiction, Vanessa follows the granddaughter of Judith Paris, a now much older character, charting the family's course into the early twentieth century. The Herries Chronicles feature noteworthy descriptions of the Lake District.
Condition
In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with good colour and only slight rubbing and just the odd mark to the boards. Minimal dulling to spine. A small nick to the bottom corner of the spine label. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Bumping to the fore edge, heavier to the back and front bottom corners and bottom edge, resulting in some loss of paper cover. Hinges tender. Internally, pages generally bright and clean with light spotting, slightly heavier to front endpapers. Folding map is particularly clean and bright; folding family tree diagram generally bright with some light spotting. Spare spine label tipped in at rear of work.
Very Good
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